Arizona DPS: 3 Killed in Wrong-Way Wreck on I-10
QUARTZSITE, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal crash in western Arizona (all times local):
3 p.m.
The Arizona Department Public Safety says three people are dead after their vehicle collided head-on with a wrong-way vehicle on Interstate 10 in western Arizona.
DPS spokesman Raul Garcia says the wreck occurred Saturday on westbound I-10 near Quartzsite when a vehicle used an exit ramp to enter the freeway and then collided with another vehicle about 500 feet (152 meters) from the exit ramp.
Garcia says the wrong-way driver was taken to a hospital. Information on the driver’s condition wasn’t immediate available and no identities were released.
According to Garcia, “impairment has not been ruled out.”
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Authorities say a fatal wreck reportedly caused by a wrong-way driver has closed a 14-mile section of westbound Interstate 10 in western Arizona.
Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Raul Garcia says the wreck that occurred Saturday about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of Quartzsite resulted in “several fatalities.”
No additional information is immediately available on circumstances of the wreck.
The Arizona Department of Transportation says a detour will re-route westbound traffic off I-10 onto Vicksburg Road and U.S. 60 before returning to I-10.
ADOT says the detour is expected to remain in place through Saturday afternoon and that drivers should allow for extra travel time.
Eastbound traffic is unaffected.
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